I try to not start a post about the weather but with the excessive heat warnings last week and continuing this week it is hard. No races to watch on GCN+ helps me get the ride started before 9 AM to reduce my exposure to the heat. The Cervelo Caledonia felt spirited as I rode today. Maybe from the recent rest it got while in the shop. Started the ride at 8:41 AM heading north to SH 242. The last time i rode this route was May 1st. I didn’t find that out until after I finished at 11:30 AM and checked SportTracks. The ongoing construction at the SH 242 overpass changed a little today with traffic flow moving to the left lanes on both the northbound and southbound frontage roads. I couldn’t see much difference on the main lanes west of US59. Someday the road will open and I will ride west on SH 242. The frontage road south of Roman Forest Blvd. has the shoulder blocked for what looks like an entrance to the development under construction west of US59. Fortunately the traffic is not very heavy in that area.

Riding up the hill to the TX 99 overpass on the northbound frontage road I hit 12 miles into the ride and that put me at my 800 mile goal for June. Early in the month I wondered if I would get there after not riding the first two days of the month. Since then I biked each day. With today’s 37.17 miles June totals 826.39 miles. With 4 days left I should get over 900 miles.

A short dog sprint on Railroad Ave. as I rode north. The dog was short and the sprint was too with the little dog’s legs moving as fast as they could. Lots of barking but when I sped up he faded quickly.

The replacement battery GoPro sent me has solved the low battery problem I was having. I think the old batteries had been charged the number of cycles they could handle. I use the GoPro every ride and charge the battery after the ride. That would put the number of charging cycles per year around 250 or more.

Weather: Start 85 degrees, 76% humidity, dew point 76.5, mostly cloudy, wind SW 6 mph; Finish 92 degrees, 61% humidity, dew point 76.3, mostly cloudy, wind S 8 mph. Excessive heat warning. The wind had some cooling effect which helped. I stopped at the 7 Eleven at FM 1314 to refill my water bottle.